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Oct 18, 2013 · Irish cadets who performed at JFK funeral to offer final salute. October 18, 2013 / 3:07 PM EDT / AP. For hours the young cadets waited, standing at attention by the freshly dug grave - a striking ...
Mar 12, 2024 · "Your honor guard made me feel proud to tears," wrote Frank Gulland, a salesman from Ohio, The Associated Press reported ahead of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's funeral.
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Jul 11, 2023 · On Nov 25, 1963, 26 Irish Army Cadets performed "the Funeral Drill" at the graveside of President John F. Kennedy. Sixty years later five of those Irish cadets attended the launch of EPIC Musuem's ...
Nov 23, 2013 · President Kennedy was so impressed with the cadets during a visit to Ireland that Jackie Kennedy asked them to perform their solemn salute at his funeral.
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Nov 21, 2013 · Dockery, from Rye, New York, was in charge of the ushers at Kennedy's funeral at St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington D.C, and responsible for hosting the 26 Irish cadets, as requested by ...
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A new group of cadets from the 37th Cadet Class was assembled by the Irish Defence Forces to execute the maneuver for a camera crew. After the assassination, and recalling Kennedy's fascination with the Queen Anne drill, Jacqueline Kennedy requested that Ireland send a contingent of cadets to the funeral to execute it graveside during interment.
Aug 9, 2023 · JFK was shot at 12:30 p.m. on November 22 (Dallas time), pronounced dead at 1 p.m., and LBJ was sworn in about an hour and a half later. Although there's a general sort of outline that's followed for state funerals, it was Jackie Kennedy who insisted on several additions that were modeled after the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, including her ...
